From PSUC viu celebrated this year on 1 May, the day of the working class, concerned about the current economic and social situation, because the crisis, how severe is hurting workers, not only leading but in recent months is getting even tougher, especially with regard to the destruction of jobs. Unemployment continues to rise rampant and seems to have no ceiling. For example, in the month of March were 35,988 workers over which increased the number of unemployed, which is according to official data, the unemployment rate has been placed in an alarming 18.8% with a total of 4,166,613 unemployed / as, the highest figure since 1996. In this sense, Spain remains the EU country where most are feeling the consequences of the crisis, not in vain, since the beginning of the crisis the number of unemployed / as has increased by 141%, triple the in Italy or Britain.
Against this, the central government antidotes PSOE delve into the economic policies of recent years embracing the neoliberal view of management. Some antidotes pursue even more precarious conditions of the working class while the real culprits of the crisis continue to harden the speech in its crackdown on social protection, firing heavily, closing businesses and focusing on the reduction of social rights as an alternative to crisis. The recent proposal to revise the public pension system, based on delaying the retirement age to 67 years and extend the period for calculating the contribution of the current 15 years to 25 years, reveals the extent to which strategies and match economic analysis of the central government and the CEOE.
From viu PSUC not forget the high rates temporary employment, job insecurity and workplace accidents, black spots on the deficits that are woven in our labor market and that were already present before the economic crisis. Within the European Union, Spain is the leader in job insecurity and in any study published in recent years and is witnessed. And when we talk of instability we mean the failure of the welfare state in Spain. We do not understand that in the current context, social protection expenditure in Spain has fallen in 2009 to 20'9% of GDP. This will further widen the gap that separates Spain from other countries in the Eurozone where the average on social protection than 30% of GDP. Also, do not ignore the double exploitation suffered by millions of workers by gender status, age or cultural background and that is why from the PSUC viu have denounced the gender inequalities in the workplace, difficulties in integration youth labor or discriminatory treatment of migrant worker population
From PSUC viu believe that now is the time to go out and make clear both the PSOE government and the business class that the crisis can not continue paying for the working class. Urge a great social mobilization for employment and social protection to force the central government to adopt measures for creating jobs and developing social policies based on the recovery of public sector of the economy, enhancing the security to the millions of unemployed and families who lack financial support to enable them to survive . We believe that out of the economic crisis has to be approached from a social and democratic approach that addresses the needs of workers and the poor. Similarly, we call on the unions to pursue in his defense of employment, wages and public system of social protection. Finally, we challenge to our membership and all citizens to participate actively in the demonstrations on May 1.
VIVA THE WORKING CLASS!, VIVA EL 1 º DE MAYO!.
viu PSUC Policy Secretariat.
April 26, 2010.
